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Background/Objectives: Chronic medical conditions may contribute to psychological burden among individuals with cancer. This study examined associations between chronic medical conditions and posttraumatic stress, depressive symptoms, anxiety, and pe...

Background/Objectives: Primary airway epithelia grown at air–liquid interface (ALI) are widely used to model respiratory endophenotypes and to enable individualized functional testing. However, culture conditions used to establish ALI vary cons...

Bank-funded supply chain finance can support retailers’ inventory purchases, but compensating core suppliers for hidden monitoring effort can reduce lending profits. This study examines how banks should design monitoring incentives for core sup...

To reveal the relative effects and interaction mechanism of soil acidification and nitrogen regulation on the growth of Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata) and to provide a scientific basis for the prevention and control of Chinese fir plantation d...

This study evaluated whether short-term extraction of Thymus vulgaris L. with solvents of different polarity selectively modifies the essential-oil (EO) fingerprint of post-extraction biomass. The initial material contained 1.85% v/w EO, dominated by...

Multifunctional hybrid spheres were developed via ionic gelation, using sodium alginate as an encapsulating matrix to integrate TiO₂, Fe₃O₄, activated carbon, hypochlorite-impregnated clinoptilolite zeolite, and metallic copper, followed by chitosan...

Maritime chokepoint exposure can be quantified, but supply-chain risk management still requires an ex ante decision about which alternatives to keep ready. The objective is to identify and evaluate an ex ante corridor-readiness portfolio before the d...

The International Roughness Index (IRI) is a crucial indicator of rigid pavement performance and distress, and artificial neural networks (ANNs) have made pavement management system (PMS) forecasting more cost-effective. However, purely data-driven A...

Background: Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a major cause of hospitalization in infants and young children, with the highest risk of severe disease occurring during early infancy. Age may influence not only disease severity but also the clinical...

The imaging performance of a Lissajous scanning two-photon microscopy system employing an ultra-compact electrostatic MEMS mirror depends critically on the stability of the scanning trajectory. However, asymmetry in driving circuit parameters and the...

Glucose metabolism is organized through interconnected metabolic pathways whose enzymes determine whether glucose is utilized for energy production, storage, or biosynthesis. Although protein kinases modulate metabolic enzymes through phosphorylation...

This paper proposes an autonomous, resource-efficient, FPGA-based synchronization architecture for distributed accelerograph networks. Unlike existing FPGA implementations that focus primarily on acceleration acquisition, the proposed design integrat...

Background: Idecabtagene vicleucel (ide-cel) has demonstrated substantial activity in relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma (RRMM), but outcomes in real-world patients remain heterogeneous. Extramedullary disease (EMD) is an adverse phenotype, and pro...

The new energy vehicle (NEV) industry anchors China’s transition towards sustainable mobility, and the Pearl River Delta (PRD) hosts one of its densest clusters. Yet the spatial organisation of the innovation system underpinning it remains poor...

Groundwater contaminated with arsenic (As) represents a significant health risk on a global scale. The migration and transformation of As in high-As sediments are influenced by microbial activity and water chemistry, yet the role of competing anions...

Objectives: To consolidate the evidence regarding the effects of squat exercise variations on lower limb muscle activation, joint kinematics, joint kinetics, force-related outcomes, and functional performance, and to examine their implications for ph...

The impact of the auditory environment on children’s performance and behaviour remains to be systematically explained by clarifying mechanisms and individual differences. This PRISMA scoping review covers peer-reviewed journal articles publishe...

The production of sustainable polymer-based composites from agricultural waste has gained great attention due to the growing demand for lighter and stronger materials. In this study, alkali-treated CLSF (30 wt.%) was used as reinforcement in vinyl es...

Climate-driven increases in flood frequency and severity highlight the need to integrate ecosystem services into land-use policy, yet practical methods for including flood regulation in national ecosystem accounts remain limited. This study developed...

Rice is one of the world’s most important staple crops, but its processing generates substantial quantities of byproducts, including rice husk, bran, straw, and broken rice, which are often underutilized or disposed of through environmentally u...

Background/Objectives: Differentiating tumor recurrence (TR) from radiation necrosis (RN) remains a significant challenge in the post-radiation management of brain metastases due to their overlapping clinical and radiographic features. Existing imagi...

Why do transient changes in processing sometimes influence perceived truth, whereas similar processing experiences have little or even opposite effects? We propose a theoretical framework specifying when prediction-error-related changes in processing...

We propose JEPADepth, a self-supervised monocular depth estimation framework that augments photometric view synthesis with an auxiliary masked-prediction loss computed in the representation space of a pretrained DINOv3 Vision Transformer (ViT), follo...

Spatial dimming in multi-user, multiple-input, multiple-output visible light communication (MIMO-VLC) systems changes the LED activation pattern and effective channel structure, thereby affecting inter-user interference and posing additional challeng...

To investigate the influence of polyoxymethylene (POM) fibers as a substitute for steel fibers (SF) on the flexural performance of ultra-high-performance concrete (UHPC) T-beams, material property tests and four-point bending tests on structural memb...

This review surveys the mathematical theory and methods of state estimation for stochastic dynamical systems when the Gaussian-linear-least-squares paradigm fails, focusing on the role of sparsity-promoting and constraint-encoding regularization. The...

Federated black-box prompt tuning enables organizations to adapt a proprietary frozen language model without centralizing their labeled data, but local search-state aggregation does not directly define a shared pooled-data objective, and client-speci...

Diabetic cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a highly specific cardiovascular complication of diabetes that occurs independently of hypertension and coronary atherosclerotic heart disease, and is primarily characterized by diffuse myocardial fibrosis and impaire...

Power transformers are critical assets in modern power systems, and their reliability directly affects grid security, resilience, and continuity of electricity supply. Their condition progressively evolves under interacting electrical, thermal, mecha...

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and heart failure (HF) share pathways involving intermittent hypoxia and oxidative stress. This randomized clinical trial with blinded endpoint assessment evaluated systemic oxidative balance during sequential treatment...

Feature preprocessing directly shapes the geometry seen by distance- and similarity-based classifiers. This study introduces DART (Discriminative Adaptive Robust Transformation), a supervised preprocessing method combining median/MAD normalization, b...

In Northeastern Brazil, agricultural cultivation can be limited by excess soil salinity, which poses a challenge to crop production. To mitigate the impacts of salt stress on plants, it is necessary to develop appropriate technologies; the use of org...

Yixingensin (ombuin-3-O-glucoside) is a flavonoid glycoside previously reported to activate peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors in mammalian cells. Whether it affects lifespan in vivo remains unclear. In the present study, the effects of yixi...

Based on the conservation of resources (COR) theory, the study explores the relationships between employee well-being and task and contextual performance and aims to analyze the statistical mediation of perceived psychological safety. The data were c...

The phenol–sulfuric acid (PSA) assay is widely recognized for its versatility and simplicity in the detection and quantification of carbohydrates. However, as well as the appropriate reagents, this method requires a UV–visible spectrophot...

Environmental pollution is a pressing global issue, characterized by diverse contaminants and the unsustainability of traditional treatment methods. Biodegradation offers an effective strategy to address this challenge, targeting pollutants such as a...

Nitrogen fertilization is essential for balancing yield stability and supporting agricultural intensification, particularly in nations where cropland expansion is constrained. The pivotal role of nitrogen fertilizers in sustainable agriculture also r...

This study examines whether interactions with trained interpreters using empathy-focused messaging through the Seattle Aquarium Beach Naturalist Program are associated with higher levels of empathy toward marine life. Empathy-focused messaging includ...

Jordanian Arabic uses a single definite article, al-, across functions that other languages split across multiple morphological forms. This paper introduces the Jordanian Arabic Definite Article Corpus (JADAC), the first spontaneous-speech corpus doc...

Overhead hoist transport (OHT) performance affects the execution of semiconductor production schedules because transport delays postpone subsequent operations. This study develops the Scheduler and OHT Allocation Monitoring Simulator (SOMOS), an even...

Fungal diseases range from common superficial infections to life-threatening invasive mycoses, yet treatment options remain constrained by host toxicity, drug interactions, pharmacokinetic limitations and antifungal resistance. This review provides a...

Objective: Behçet’s disease (BD) is a systemic vasculitis characterized by thrombo-inflammation. This cross-sectional study compared inflammatory indices obtained from complete blood counts (CBC), focusing particularly on red blood cell...

Schisandra chinensis (Turcz.) Baill. (S. chinensis) is a traditional Chinese medicinal plant whose fruits are rich in bioactive constituents, including lignans, organic acids, and flavonoids. Nevertheless, the biochemical dynamics underlying fruit de...

To downscale artificial intelligence (AI) medium-range forecasts over the Korean Peninsula, we developed a 1.5 km CorrDiff system trained with ERA5 inputs and UM-LDAPS analyses as targets. For 1.5 m temperature and 10 m wind, the regression stage red...

Background/Objectives: The canalis sinuosus (CS) and its accessory canals (ACs) are neurovascular canals of the anterior maxilla at risk during surgery. We examined their prevalence, side distribution, diameter, localization, and course on cone-beam...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is being developed to analyze radiological, histopathological, molecular, and clinical data across the non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) pathway. This narrative review examines representative applications through August...

Deep learning has significantly enhanced one-dimensional biosignal processing in wearable devices by enabling accurate and intelligent signal analysis. Wearable devices operate using optimized model parameters obtained through offline training. Howev...

This study employed Large Eddy Simulation (LES) based on the WALE model to study the complex flow within a 5 × 5 fuel rod bundle channel with a spacer grid. The numerical simulation was validated through turbulent kinetic spectrum analysis and...

The role of splenomegaly in bariatric surgery remains poorly defined. This study evaluated perioperative outcomes and preoperative laboratory findings in patients with severe obesity and preoperative splenomegaly undergoing sleeve gastrectomy, compar...

Background: Clinical feedback occurs in hierarchical, time-pressured settings. Objective: This Perspective proposes relational wellness as a dyadic condition of a feedback episode and describes a brief feedback heuristic. Approach: The framework was...